Rayes, Mark Ammar
Adjunct Professor School of Engineering - SJSU
Technology Director / Architect, Celestica
Formal Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems
Formal Director of Engineering, AT&T Bell Labs
Preferred: ammar.rayes@sjsu.edu
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Education
- Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineer, Washington University.
- Post Graduate, AI/ML, The University of Taxes at Austin.
- MS, Electrical Engineer, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- BS, Electrical Engineer, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Bio
Dr. Mark Ammar Rayes is an Adjunct Professor at San José State University, where he specializes in AI/ML/LLMs, IoT, Networking, Security, and Enterprise Platforms. He is the author of four books—including a bestseller—has published over 150 IEEE papers, and holds more than 50 patents.
He is the Founding President and Board Member of ISSIP.org, Editor-in-Chief of the Advances in IoT journal, and serves on editorial boards for several leading publications, including the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, the IEEE Blockchain Technical Brief, the European Alliance for Innovation, and the IEEE Industry Communities Board.
Dr. Rayes has guest-edited more than two dozen IEEE journal and magazine issues and served as Associate Editor for journals such as ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and the International Journal of Communication Systems. He is a frequent keynote speaker at IEEE and industry conferences worldwide.
With more than two decades of leadership experience at Celestica, Cisco, and Bell Labs, Dr. Rayes bridges academia and industry with deep practical insight. He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana, an MS in AI/ML from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.